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Word: shoot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Evgraf, Zhivago's brother, appears once every 150 pages and plays his spasmodic role as a brother's keeper. Pasha, who left his family to become a military commander for the Communists, must explain his love, excuse his motivation, justify his life, and shoot himself in ten pages. These two men offered Zhivago a serious intellectual challenge--service out of love, and service out of duty. But Zhivago fails to come to terms with either concept, and Pasternak abets...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: Pasternak's Hero: Man Against the Monoliths | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

...Russia shoot its Luniks. Two-thirds of the Soviet people don't even know what a decent outhouse looks like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 2, 1959 | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

...away." A wrinkled woman named Tomasa Batista Castillo fought to get at the prisoner: "I begged you not to kill my husband, because of our eleven children. You said the rebels could raise them." A soldier of Sosa Blanco's said calmly that he had seen the prisoner shoot 17 defenseless farmers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: The Scolding Hero | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

...five games and sinking lower into third place in the four-team Western Division, Baylor still managed to stay fourth in league scoring, kept his average at 23.4 points a game. His scoring would be even higher if he did not pass so often when free to shoot-he ranked seventh in playmaking assists at last week's tally. In addition, he was third in rebounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Young Pro | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

...shoot-em-up fans have their day at the Brattle, where one of the finest French gangster flicks of all time is now showing. Razzia leaves nothing to be desired. The mystery which runs through the entire film does not reach its denouement until the very end, and there is enough violence to last all but the most sadistic for several weeks. Again Gabin is masterful, although he leaves the shooting to several excellently portrayed gangster types who expires at the film's end in a burst of machine gun fire...

Author: By Frederick W. Byron jr., | Title: Inspector Maigret | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

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